PART 9 TOP 50 RANDOM FACTS THAT CAN BLOW YOUR MIND 🤯
Random Facts About Everything
The Burj Khalifa is so tall you can see two sunsets from it in one day.
You can see the sunset happen at ground level, and then if you get the elevator all the way up the building you can see it set again from the top.
Oranges were originally green.
The first oranges ever imported from to the West were from Southeast Asia and were tangerine-pomelo hybrids that were green in color.
in fact, oranges grown in warmer parts of the world such as Vietnam and Thailand stay green throughout their lifetime.
Russia has more surface area than Pluto.
With 6,601,668 square miles of land mass, Russia beats Pluto’s 6,427,805 square miles of surface area, and dwarfs the world’s second biggest country, Canada, which has a land mass of 3,855,103 square miles.
You can fire an arrow around an object to hit a target.
Both English and Arabic historic sources have mentioned skilled archers curving arrows around objects.
It has become a practice among some modern-day archers who have proved it can be done.
In fact, an arrow can even be fired with a 180 degree curve to hit an object on the other side of a wall – amazing right?!
There is no specific time zone at the South Pole.
This is because all the longitude lines on the planet meet up there (because the planet isn’t flat, yo).
The stations on the South Pole use the time zone of the country that owns them, meaning two stations near each other could be using two different time zones.
Surfer slang “hang ten” means having all 10 toes over your board’s edge when riding a wave.
There was a type of Pterodactyl with a bigger wingspan than a fighter jet.
The remarkable beast’s remains were dug up in Romania.
Standing as tall as a giraffe, it’s believed the flying reptile would have weighed about half a ton.
With a wingspan of 39 foot, it would have been bigger than the roughly 33-foot wingspan of an F16 fighter jet.
Scientists genetically modified goats to spin spider silk from their udders.
US Professor Randy Lewis transplanted a gene into the goats from a spider that allows the goats to produce milk containing an extra protein.
This is then extracted from the goat milk and spun into spider silk thread.
The British Queen’s handbag is a body language communication device.
It is used by her to relay secret and silent messages to her staff.
For example, if she is finished speaking to a guest she will move it from one arm to another and her aides will politely end the conversation, or if she wants to abruptly end a conversation she will put her bag on the ground.
There is a spacecraft graveyard in the South Pacific Ocean.
Known as “Point Nemo”, it is the furthest place on the Earth from land.
It is home to over 300 spacecraft and associated space debris, including the MIR space station, the first ever object assembled in planetary orbit by Russian cosmonauts.
Broccoli is a “man-made” food.
So human’s just engineered broccoli out of nowhere? Nope.
Well, not exactly.
Broccoli only came about after years and years of selective breeding between wild cabbage plants that started around the 6th century BC.
In fact, the word “broccoli” comes from the Italian for “the flowering crest of a cabbage”.
High heels were originally men’s shoes.
High heels came into circulation on the shoe circuit in roughly 10 BC.
They were worn by men of the Persian Cavalry to help their boots stay in their stirrups when riding horses.
Bowler Hats were originally invented as safety hats.
Bowler Hats were designed by London hatters Thomas and William Bowler (hence the name).
The hat was invented to keep horse riders’ heads safe from branches and other obstacles.
“OMG” was first used in writing in 1917.
Although people might have said it before then, the popular acronym for “Oh My God” was first used in writing in a letter to Winston Churchill in 1917.
It was used by John Arbuthnot Fisher, a retired Admiral of the British Navy, who said in his letter “I hear that a new order of Knighthood is on the tapis, O.M.G. (Oh! My God!)”.
There is a smoke alarm for the deaf.
Invented by a team of Japanese scientists and engineers, this lifesaving device works by spraying vaporized wasabi into the air, which notifies deaf people of a fire – it will even wake them up if they’re sleeping!
This invention won one of the IG Nobel Prizes in 2011, a spoof of the Nobel Prizes, for inventions that “first make people laugh, and then make them think”.
Peanuts, walnuts, almonds, cashews and pistachios aren’t nuts.
Armadillos have shells so hard they can deflect a bullet.
One poor Texan man learned this the hard way when he shot at an armadillo only to have the bullet ricochet off the indestructible beast, and back at him into his jaw! The man was airlifted to hospital.
Amazingly, the armadillo just walked off unscathed.
Only a quarter of the Sahara Desert is sandy.
Antarctica is the world’s largest desert.
The Antarctic Polar Desert covers the Antarctica continent and covers roughly 5.5 million square miles.
The Sahara Desert covers roughly 3.6 million square miles.
In 1960, a cow got hit by a chunk of falling U.S. satellite in Cuba.
This was during a time where tensions between Havana and Washington were at their highest.
So the Cubans decided to make the best out of a bad situation and had a good laugh at their American neighbors.
They paraded a cow through the Cuban streets with a sign on it that said “Eisenhower, you murdered one of my sisters!”
Your nose and ears never stop growing.
In the 1990s, half of the world’s CDs were made for AOL sign-up discs.
For you young ‘uns out there this fact is going to blow your mind – you had to use a disc to sign up to an internet provider!
The world wasn’t always full of all 5G’s just knocking about in the planetary ether – hell, back then I think 3G would’ve been mind-blowing enough, let alone not having to use a disc to sign up to the internet!
Bees can fly higher than Mount Everest!
Until 2015, it was illegal to dance in Japan after midnight.
In 1997 a cargo ship lost 4.8 million Lego bits in a storm. They are still washing up today.
The container ship Tokio Express was hauling cargo across stormy seas on February the 13th, when a rogue wave crashed over the decks and caused some of her cargo to become loose and wash overboard.
One such container contained a shipment of Lego including octopuses, dragons, flippers and flowers.
These pieces are often found on the beaches of Cornwall in the UK, whenever there’s a particularly bad storm.
In Tokyo, Japan, there is a hedgehog cafe.
You can go to this establishment and pay 1,000 Yen to go in, have a cappuccino and play with and cuddle some amazing hedgehogs!
Just be careful when you’re cuddling them because they aren’t exactly soft and fluffy!
The smallest dinosaur ever discovered is only 16 inches long.
Discovered in China, the Microraptor is one of the most recent dinosaur discoveries and is the smallest ever found.
Most of the specimens that have been found have also been fully grown, so the baby Microraptors would have been even smaller!
In England, pigeon poop is property of the Crown.
This is because pigeon poop could be used to make gunpowder.
Because of this, King George I declared all pigeon poop to be property of the Crown in the 18th Century.
The letter ‘E’ is the most common letter in the English language.
New Zealand is actually part of a much bigger, sunken landmass.
Dubbed Zealandia, it was only discovered after humans had traveled to space as they were able to easily see it from above the Earth.
Some scientists believe it should be formally recognized as the world’s 8th continent.
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